Hear anything interesting?
I went through a few of them. Seemed decently attended. Signs and spacing looked organic (i.e. no NGO formally organizing things for maximal visual effect).
Also judging by lack of violence and/or ridiculous counter-protestors: no FBI/CIA/Mossad involvement.
This is good. Let them blow off steam and get some sunshine. Thought the Donkic op was also very good at calming down the public while big world events are going down.
Damn. Nice hit. When I heard there were 30k beds (!) I was shocked cuz I was thinking it was maybe on the scale of 500 or something w/court facilities to process high value targets like Gates, Soros, Clinton, etc.
Maybe a big part of Gitmo is space for terrorist cells that were going to activate at some point?
I believe this is the official YT link:
If you've ever been subjected to NPR for a few hours you probably recognize the coordinating foundation for the new 501c3:
"All proceeds from FireAid will benefit those affected by the fires. A 501(c)(3) was set up, and contributions to FireAid will be distributed under the Annenberg Foundation, which with FireAid has assembled a small committee to advise."
Brad and Honey Sherman, HCQ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sxIh2IGThQ
I'm not sure it's connected though. Even though the rumor went around I don't think they ever explicitly offered it, at least that I can find.
Most folks just want to use it to gamble, unfortunately.
In the early days of crypto vendors were hopping on the train left and right and it would have easily had the momentum to make VISA irrelevant if the Fed hadn't illegally stepped in.
There is a horrendous fact check of RFKs secret service protection being blocked that tries to imply that it was too early for him to get it, but all it ends up showing is how nearly every candidate that the media defers to already has protection from family or the prior admin.
i.e. this stuff does wayyy back.
It's very odd--and maybe a clue--that many of the agencies seemed to start acting in concert w/Trump before he took office...
Also consider the IG dismissals, if he were in some way preparing these 30 days earlier while still in office...
Because the original story of 17 being fired was entirely sourced through "anonymous sources" I was kind of suspicious of whether it was even true.
However, the website has now been updated to reflect 14 public affairs contact positions as "Vacant".
Compare with an earlier snapshot:
Here are the 14 people. Can anyone see a pattern?
Americorps: Stephen Ravas
Architect of the Capitol: Michael J. Rich
CIA: Robert Host
Department of Commerce: Jill Baisinger
Dept. of Treasury: Loren Sciurba
Election Assistance Commission: Sarah Dreyer
Farm Credit Association: Nick Novak
Federal Trade Commission: Marissa Gould
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Robert Steinau
NSA: Kevin Gerrity
Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community: Tamara Johnson
Railroad Retirement Board: Shanon E. Holman
Social Security Administration: Hannibal Ware
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration: Heather M. Hill
Glancing at the real estate in Tucson, there seem to be an abundance of simple one story structures, lots of brick/stucco/block construction vs. wood. More vegetation than I would have guessed. Significantly fewer solar panels than I would have guessed--even on upper class homes.
I do see some banks of solar panels that could serve as starting points for fires, e.g.:
32.192223636768645, -110.86541009501595
If I were a cabal entity tasked with razing a city like Tucson, I'd initially think to use their power infrastructure. But after glancing at it a bit, I'm inclined to think their style of construction is resistant to it. There's dry vegetation, but not much of it, and it's very low to the ground.
If you did an attack through the power infrastructure, it'd destroy homes, sure, but then people would be aware of that attack vector and they would likely be able to rebuild w/out issues. i.e. I don't think it would create enough damage. It's more useful to be able to light a given house on fire through that attack method than to destroy a city with it and lose the method due to public awareness.
I'm wondering if a chemical or earthquake attack would be more effective in terms of convincing people not to rebuild. You want the victim to perceive it as a 100% loss.
To add to that, it looks like disaster emergency fund codes (DEFC) were introduced pretty recently, back in 2017:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180205024000/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/M-18-08.pdf
"The new requirement will impact the reporting within the Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) where a new Disaster Emergency Fund Code (DEFC) attribute has been introduced. This will not impact the format of existing budgetary reports. "
TBH it just looks like a sort of default..